hyperviolence

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hyper- +‎ violence

Noun[edit]

hyperviolence (uncountable)

  1. Extreme violence.
    • 2009 May 24, Jeffrey Goldberg, “No Common Ground”, in New York Times[1]:
      To Morris, this rejection and all that followed — the hyperviolence of the second Palestinian uprising, the rise of Hamas — confirm that there is nothing Israel could do to make Arab Muslims agree to its existence as a Jewish state.